HRD Radio Report – Week Ending 1/5/19

HRD Radio Report – Week Ending 1/5/19

Each week on HardRockDaddy.com. The HRD Radio Report digs deeper into the weekly Active Rock charts, providing commentary, reviews, recommendations and predictions. It also features opinion pieces on chart action and the music business in general. The following is the Active Rock Mediabase Chart for the week ending 1/5/19. All exclusive HRD content is featured below the chart:

A simple, raucous, in-your-face hook is the spark of energy fueling the engine that is Savage After Midnight’s “10 Feet Tall.” Intense moments make an obvious impact, but the intrigue lies within the more reserved, subtle vocal moments that are punctuated with seductive pop elements. The unexpected layers come to life when you listen with headphones to capture the atmospheric, tone-setting keyboards beneath the surface.

Savage After Midnight has had a decade to hone their craft amidst a landscape of turmoil that includes a studio fire, a crippling lawsuit beyond their control, and a last minute label change. The strife may have been a blessing in disguise, allowing the band to improve their chemistry and fine tune their presentation on stage and in the studio. There’s an art to seamlessly blending simplicity with complexity. On “10 Feet Tall,” Savage After Midnight does an admirable job of doing just that.

PUBLISHER’S PREDICTIONS (By Adam Waldman)

As predicted, Godsmack begins 2019 atop the chart, but if this week’s trend holds, The Glorious Sons will be the new #1 next week. If not, then two weeks from now at the latest. With nearly 300 spins separating The Glorious Sons from Ghost and Papa Roach, it looks like they should have at least a few week run at #1 once they get there.

HRD SPIN CONTROL (by Adam Waldman and Jon Loveless)

Each week, we will share the songs that we think should be added to rotations, alongside the songs that we feel should be dropped from rotations, either because they are a bad fit for the format, or because they have run their course and it’s time for a new single from the artist.

SPIN IT…

SAVAGE AFTER MIDNIGHT – “10 Feet Tall”

LIGHT THE TORCH – “The Safety Of Disbelief”

SHVPES – “Afterlife”

MONSTER TRUCK – “Denim Danger”

JOHN GARCIA AND THE BAND OF GOLD – “My Everything”

DEVOUR THE DAY – “Faithless”

IN FLAMES – “(This Is Our) House”

AFTERLIFE – “Throat”

DROP IT…

Twenty One Pilots – “My Blood”

Basement – “Disconnect”

Muse – “Pressure”

Fever 333 – “Made An America”

Black Moods – “Bella Donna”

Disturbed – “Are You Ready?”

Panic! At The Disco – “Amen”

Palaye Royale – “You’ll Be Fine”

THE BREAKDOWN (by Jon Loveless)

NOTABLE CHART MOVEMENT

The Top 10 songs remain the same for the fourth straight week, only a single change in the tier for the five weeks…

Nothing actually “new” in the Top 20 this week either, although one song does return after a week’s absence…

Same situation occurs in the Top 30, as Chevelle creeps back up despite a very slight decline in airplay…

Two songs do reach the Top 40 for the first time, Dose and Like A Storm both rise despite essentially flat airplay…

There are five songs in the Top 50 that weren’t there last week, alas only two of those are actually new with the rest being re-entries. Disturbed and Shim do debut with their latest singles.

Thanks!

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